Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny

03/03/2010 10:21

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep air jordan shoesthe regulatory heat
on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of Internet search.
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the alleged misconduct.
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regulators, Ballmer said. "Sometimes (it's) unsolicited, sometimes because we have been asked."
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"I am actually not interested in government intervention in anything," Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told reporters during a Tuesday lunch to celebrate the company's
15th anniversary. "I think for the most part markets work. I don't wish antitrust on anyone."
Microsoft already has helped convince U.S. regulators that Google would break antitrust laws in two proposed deals: a search advertising partnership with
Yahoo that was scrapped in 2008 and a digital books settlement that air shoxstill needs
federal court approval. Yahoo also lobbied regulators to oppose the agreement that would give Google the electronic rights to millions of hard-to-find books.
Ciao, an online shopping comparison service owned by Microsoft, has filed an antitrust complaint against Google in Europe. Regulators there say they are
looking into those allegations and similar ones made by two other sites, Foundem and ejustice.fr.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has had its own troubles air shox shoeswith
regulators. Its bundling of personal computer software triggered a court dispute with the U.S. Justice Department that forced the company to change the way
it packages software with its Windows operating system. Microsoft later tussled with EU regulators, too.
Since Microsoft's own antitrust showdown started in the late 1990s, more people have been relying on their computers chiefly as a conduit to the Internet.
The evolution has turned Google's Internet gateway and other online services into a major threat to Microsoft, which has tried to respond by investing
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